Acrobat 3/4/Ghostscript/etc.

[T Bruce Tober]

In message <36270542F65@lucs-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk>, Yaman Akdeniz
<lawya@lucs-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk> writes
>HTML is the most common language as we are all obliged to use a 
>browser to download these files and therefore why don't the 
>government departments provide an HTML version of their policy 
>papers? In addition to HTML, PDF and word would be OK if a government 

For anyone concerned about security issues (of any sort) to seriously
recommend the use of M$ Word is a sacriledge. Word is responsible for
most of the most disasterous viruses out in the wild today, not to
mention most of the viruses of even non disastrous nature. It is an open
invitation to anyone to infect every one of our machines, except for
those of us intelligent and concerned enough to be using WordPerfect. 

Fortunately I don't have to worry about accepting a Word document, since
I can open any of them in WP and not execute the virus file. Those of
you still careless enough to be using Word don't have that luxury.
>government (in this case the Home Office) is not doing its job 
>properly andopen government is not about providing fancy documents.

Exactly, which is why they should be produced in straight ascii text.

tbt
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